Welcome to the brave new world of developing in the cloud! You’ve heard all about the technical ins-and-outs of setting up a cloud-based microservices development environment and have decided to give it a whirl. Now you need to stock your toolbox with solutions that let you understand what your code is doing, so you know…
As deployments become more complex and require more moving parts, simulating the full microservice environment on a developer’s laptop becomes really tough. At a certain point, it just can’t be done right and provisioning a cloud-based environment becomes your dev weapon of choice. This may be a less familiar option for devs who are new…
In the first part of this series, we discussed how developing with microservices differs from monolith development, and how those differences impact the choice of dev environment. In this second post, we’ll talk about when it’s best to leverage the local environment and the tools that can help. The Pluses of Local Development… For most…
Over the past few years, whenever the topic of microservices arises, this familiar question also comes up: What is the best approach for developing a few/numerous/countless microservices? In a time-honored tradition, I generally answer with a slew of additional questions: Have you already started developing? How large is the team working on the application? Have…
It is no coincidence that “looking for a needle in a haystack” is a popular debugging metaphor. When a single missing ; can cause problems, and you must go through hundreds and thousands of code lines to find it. That’s when the metaphor becomes all too relevant. So what happens when the problem is a…
Serverless is hot in the world of software architecture. Many vendors dedicate themselves to serverless, and of course, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft are heavily invested in it. But like any other hot technology, it has some drawbacks. In this post, I share a super-handy hack for those times when you need to build a…
It all started when I was testing Rookout on Docker (with Alpine and Python). Rookout is a new approach to data collection and pipelining from live code. We basically allow developers to request any piece of data with just a few clicks and view it on their machine in any framework, cloud, and the environment…
